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I got the oil level warning light again for my 2016 CX-9. Dip stick shows it is slightly below bottom hole of dip stick after driving 4700 miles from last oil change. Synthetic. Visited dealer. The advisor wants to try conventional oil instead. This advisor is crap unfortunately lying to me...

Thank you! This helped a lot!

Update. I think I have fixed this. I lifted car up and tried moving every possible joint in rear passenger side suspension to see if they wiggle (none were wiggling) and applied small amount of WD-40 to joints/bolts that is not tied with rubber bushing (to prevent WD-40 eat rubber bushing)...

My 2016 CX-9 has annoying creaking from the rear passenger side door. It might be just a coincidence, but this started happen after fixing suspension creaking (a known TSB). It sounds like two Styrofoam block rubbing or leather rubbing. This happens when I apply slight break or when driving...

I am not able to find any reference on engine warm-up from the owner's manual. Can you point me where I can find such from owner's manual? I have searched all occurrences of "warm", "rpm", "1000", "1500" and even "jerk", but none were about recommendation for engine warm-up before driving...

Good to know that I am not the only one experiencing this. Now I am less concerned. I am still curious why this happens with Mazda CX-9 though. I have owned other cards Honda CR-V and Honda Odyssey and I've not experienced it (even though I've never done any warm-up of engine before driving)...

My 2016 CX-9 jerks slightly at low speed sometimes. The sensation feels like I've been rear-ended very slightly in a way that car pushes forward abruptly. This usually happens at low speed and engine is cold, not much time after I started the car. This bothers me, but I am not able to reproduce...

Try change the maintenance mode to Fixed and reset it. It should work. There seem to be a bug that it still honors Fixed mode counter even when you're in Flexible mode. And there is actually a TSB discussing the issue. New firmware seems to fix it. Date Reported JULY 11, 2016 NHTSA Reference...

I love my 2016 Mazda CX-9. However reliability of Mazda Connect infotainment software is less than ideal. I experience reboot every now and then and bluetooth connection is also hit and miss. And some settings don't seem to work as expected and constant repeated speed camera warning message when...

Not sure what exactly is turbo lag, but I wanted to check if the sensation I feel is the turbo lag. During low speed and slow acceleration, I feel the car pulls forward with higher torque very briefly at certain point and settle down to normal speed/acceleration. It is subtle, but I am bothered...

For me, the dip stick marker showed it was almost 3/4inch above the full marker when I measured myself following exactly the manual on how to measure. The manual actually says that you need to run engine so that it reaches normal operating temperature and turn off the car and wait for five...

I visited the dealership today and they claim that they put low amount of oil last time thinking it was 2015 CX-9 instead of 2016 CX-9. So they did full oil change. A side story is that last time they put service sticker on the windshield saying they put 0W-30 instead of 5W-30. So I called...

"Low oil level light" came on today for my 2016 CX-9. It has been only 2.5K miles from the last oil change. When I turn off the car and restart it, the light goes off for a while then it comes back. So I checked the oil level just now and it seems it is slightly above the bottom marker. It was a...

I visited the dealer, and they were able to fix the issue by upgrading the firmware.

And also this seems to be the TSB discussing my issue. I could not find full detail of this TSB though. Date Reported JULY 11, 2016 NHTSA Reference #10085401 TSB Reference #SA323 Description: CUSTOMERS MAY EXPERIENCE THE WRENCH LIGHT ON IN THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER WHEN THE VEHICLE IS NOT DUE FOR...